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by esokullu 2757 days ago
how is this different from qt-mobile?
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it uses C++ and not QML for the interface, the UI components are actually native, you can use templates, etc.
So it's like React-Native, but wirh C++ instead of JS?
Yes exactly. If you look at the code, it basically is just using pure virtual provider classes to allow JNI on android and OBJC++ on iOS to provide the native system UI components. Its pretty elegant actually.

The only problem becomes that it is a lot of code to manually maintain or bootstrap. And possibly a decent amount of effort to add new platform widgets, but I didn't look very deeply into how exactly that would be done.

except being inferior, and 20 years behind in terms of development?